Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Brava Security raised a $15 million seed round to expand its system for identifying attacks that existing security logs and detection rules could miss.
Pliant raised an $80 million Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest to expand its payment infrastructure and develop payment tools for AI agents.
General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund committed $500 million to help Nooks expand sales, marketing and product launches.
Shackleton AI emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding to expand its platform for automating construction administration.
Sentra raised $150 million in a strategic investment led by Capital One Ventures. The company will use the funding to expand its data security platform, sales operations and geographic reach.
Goodman Group and Digital Realty have offered AU$715 million for a 9.9% stake in Australian data center operator NEXTDC.
Aker CEO Øyvind Eriksen described Microsoft's canceled Nscale compute contract as minor compared with the startup's wider portfolio.
Nums AI raised $1.5 million in a second preseed closing, bringing its cumulative funding to $4.6 million. The startup will develop its Causilo model and expand its team.
UK proptech company Supa raised £21 million to expand its residential block management platform and acquire more local property management firms.
Dialpad and Ada agreed to combine in a share only transaction that values the Toronto customer service AI company at about US$430 million.
Manchester based Crediflow AI raised €1.8 million to expand its software for automating commercial loan processing. The company will grow its engineering and product team and add workflows covering more of the loan lifecycle.
e2e raised €7 million in seed funding to develop its open source framework for testing web and mobile applications.
Chord acquires business intelligence platform Zenlytic, doubling its revenue and adding customers including Verizon, J.Crew, Domino's and Stanley Black & Decker.
Applied Compute raised $350 million at a $3.25 billion valuation after reaching a $100 million annualized revenue run rate. The company will expand compute capacity, hiring and enterprise deployments.
AkademikerPension plans to buy Anthropic shares through its IPO for passive holdings, while any active investment will depend on valuation.
Analog Devices completed its acquisition of Alif Semiconductor, adding AI microcontrollers and fusion processors to its semiconductor portfolio.
Egyptian venture capital fund Nclude has closed more than $112 million to invest in fintech, financial inclusion and AI startups across Africa and the Middle East.
Anthropic recorded an 85.4% gross margin in the first half of 2026, compared with 26.4% for Zhipu AI and 17.9% for MiniMax.
Generative media infrastructure company Fal announced a Sequoia-led Series E and a Bessemer-led Series F, reported at $1.65 billion combined and a $16 billion valuation.
Syncere raised an $11 million pre seed round led by a16z Speedrun to deliver its first Lume robot lamps, expand manufacturing and adapt its robotics technology for commercial uses.